The first table below looks at the demand for Log4j skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Log4j over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Log4j
Rank 832 836 826
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Log4j 28 51 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.042% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.175% 0.296% 0.288%
Number of salaries quoted 23 40 27
Average salary £38,500 £45,000 £58,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.44% -23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £38,000 £34,300
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £67,500 £88,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £45,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year
-22.22% -2.70%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15992 17239 15612
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 14.23% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13641 15127 13714
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%

Log4j
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Log4j within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Log4j Jobs Demand Trend

Log4j
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Log4j within the UK.

Log4j Salary Trend

Log4j
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Log4j over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Log4j Salary Histogram

Log4j
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Log4j within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -16 26 £38,500 -14.44%
South East +1 16 £38,500 -42.96%
Berkshire - 10 £35,000 -
Reading - 6 £38,500 -
London +16 5 £52,500 +23.52%
Newbury - 5 £30,000 -
East of England +1 3 £30,000 -
Hertfordshire 0 3 £30,000 -
Hampshire - 3 £45,000 -
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £30,000 -
Kent - 3 £65,000 -
Basingstoke - 3 £45,000 -
Scotland - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Shropshire - 2 - -
Telford - 2 - -
Edinburgh - 2 - -

Log4j
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Log4j also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Log4j.

1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (76.47%) JUnit
3 33 (64.71%) JDBC
4 32 (62.75%) J2EE
5 31 (60.78%) Web Services
6 30 (58.82%) UNIX
7 29 (56.86%) Tomcat
8 28 (54.90%) CSS
9 27 (52.94%) XML
9 27 (52.94%) HTML
10 26 (50.98%) Apache
11 23 (45.10%) JSP
11 23 (45.10%) SOAP
12 22 (43.14%) Ant
13 21 (41.18%) Oracle
13 21 (41.18%) Spring
14 20 (39.22%) JavaScript
15 19 (37.25%) Sun
16 18 (35.29%) JMS
16 18 (35.29%) AWT
17 17 (33.33%) Scrum
18 16 (31.37%) Ajax
18 16 (31.37%) WebSphere
19 15 (29.41%) Swing
19 15 (29.41%) SQL
19 15 (29.41%) Servlets
20 14 (27.45%) MySQL
20 14 (27.45%) Eclipse
20 14 (27.45%) Hibernate
20 14 (27.45%) Subversion

Log4j
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Log4j also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Log4j. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (64.71%) JDBC
2 32 (62.75%) J2EE
3 31 (60.78%) Web Services
4 28 (54.90%) CSS
5 27 (52.94%) XML
5 27 (52.94%) HTML
6 23 (45.10%) JSP
6 23 (45.10%) SOAP
7 21 (41.18%) Spring
8 18 (35.29%) JMS
8 18 (35.29%) AWT
9 16 (31.37%) Ajax
9 16 (31.37%) WebSphere
10 15 (29.41%) Swing
10 15 (29.41%) Servlets
11 14 (27.45%) Hibernate
11 14 (27.45%) REST
12 12 (23.53%) Struts
12 12 (23.53%) XSLT
12 12 (23.53%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 29 (56.86%) Tomcat
2 26 (50.98%) Apache
3 12 (23.53%) Jetty
4 5 (9.804%) Magento
4 5 (9.804%) CMS
4 5 (9.804%) WebLogic
4 5 (9.804%) MQSeries
5 4 (7.843%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (5.882%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.882%) ESB
7 2 (3.922%) JRun
8 1 (1.961%) TIBCO EMS
8 1 (1.961%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Tridion
1 1 (1.961%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.961%) Internet
1 1 (1.961%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) MySQL
2 9 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 7 (13.73%) TOAD
4 6 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (11.76%) Oracle 9i
4 6 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 6 (11.76%) Big Data
4 6 (11.76%) MarkLogic
5 5 (9.804%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (9.804%) DB2
6 3 (5.882%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.882%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (76.47%) JUnit
2 22 (43.14%) Ant
3 14 (27.45%) Eclipse
3 14 (27.45%) Subversion
3 14 (27.45%) Maven
4 9 (17.65%) Mockito
5 6 (11.76%) JIRA
6 5 (9.804%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (9.804%) Jenkins
7 4 (7.843%) Hudson
8 3 (5.882%) NetBeans
8 3 (5.882%) OpenDeploy
8 3 (5.882%) Bugzilla
9 2 (3.922%) IntelliJ
9 2 (3.922%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (1.961%) ClearQuest
10 1 (1.961%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 13 (25.49%) Investment Banking
1 13 (25.49%) Banking
2 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 2 (3.922%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Developer
2 28 (54.90%) Java Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Senior Java Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Senior Developer
4 12 (23.53%) ScrumMaster
5 6 (11.76%) Applications Support
5 6 (11.76%) Team Leader
6 5 (9.804%) Applications Support Analyst
6 5 (9.804%) Support Analyst
6 5 (9.804%) Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 3 (5.882%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) Development Team Leader
9 1 (1.961%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 1 (1.961%) Head of Operations
9 1 (1.961%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 1 (1.961%) Applications Support Engineer
9 1 (1.961%) 2nd Line Support
9 1 (1.961%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Semantic Web
1 6 (11.76%) Linked Data
1 6 (11.76%) Statistics
2 3 (5.882%) Clustering
3 1 (1.961%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 30 (58.82%) UNIX
2 10 (19.61%) Linux
3 8 (15.69%) Solaris
4 3 (5.882%) Windows
5 1 (1.961%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Scrum
2 13 (25.49%) OO
3 12 (23.53%) UML
3 12 (23.53%) SOA
4 11 (21.57%) E-Commerce
5 10 (19.61%) Content Management
6 9 (17.65%) TDD
7 7 (13.73%) MVC
7 7 (13.73%) RAD
8 6 (11.76%) RDF
8 6 (11.76%) High Availability
9 5 (9.804%) Analytics
9 5 (9.804%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (9.804%) Web Analytics
9 5 (9.804%) SEO
10 3 (5.882%) BDD
10 3 (5.882%) Test Automation
10 3 (5.882%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (5.882%) Configuration Management
10 3 (5.882%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (39.22%) JavaScript
3 15 (29.41%) SQL
4 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.76%) PHP
5 6 (11.76%) SPARQL
5 6 (11.76%) Scala
6 4 (7.843%) Perl
7 3 (5.882%) C++
8 2 (3.922%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.961%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.961%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.961%) XPath
9 1 (1.961%) Ruby
9 1 (1.961%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
2 12 (23.53%) SCJP
2 12 (23.53%) Sun Certification
3 1 (1.961%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Oracle
2 19 (37.25%) Sun
3 10 (19.61%) JBoss
4 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 8 (15.69%) ATG
6 6 (11.76%) IBM
6 6 (11.76%) hybris
7 5 (9.804%) Zend
7 5 (9.804%) Percussion
8 4 (7.843%) TIBCO
9 3 (5.882%) Endeca
9 3 (5.882%) VMware
10 2 (3.922%) BEA
10 2 (3.922%) Pega
11 1 (1.961%) Elastic Path
11 1 (1.961%) Blue Martini
11 1 (1.961%) Interwoven
York, North Yorkshire
Responsibilities include developing custom software for digital media clients such as a Video-on-Demand platform for online, TV, mobile, and tablet devices using Java6, J2EE, Spring and...
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Posted: 24 April 2013